Are you wishing to try a form poem but don't know where to start? Are sonnets too stuffy, villanelles too rhyme-y, and sestinas just too...

Today's poem on my blog was written in response to a book review. The book, The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer, contains the...

In today's blog poem, "A Voice Speaking Out," by Faye Turner-Johnson, the speaker begins by telling us, "I have a voice that roams while"...

Maybe it's because I posted a poem about submarine warfare. Or maybe because I always long for the ocean. It could be because I just...

"The Saturday Afternoon Blues" is one of my favorite (maybe even my favorite) Wanda Coleman poems, in large part because of the sounds in...

If you'd like to hear the song that goes along with today's prompt title (The Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"), click here....

Today's poem on my blog, Home on New Year's, by Dina Ben-Lev, is a great example of the cliche "When life gives you lemons, make...

Please read Karin Gottshall's beautiful poem, Soap, posted on my blog today. Then, write a poem in which candles in a window are one of...

After reading Mary Biddinger's wonderful poem, "Saint Monica Burns It Down," published in Valparaiso Poetry Review and posted today on my...

This week's prompt is easy for any writer or artist: you are asked to make a list. For poets, this means a List Poem. History is full of...

Your prompt for this week popped into my head as I looked for a poem to post today from Robert Wood Lynn's incredible collection, Mothman...

Craig Santos Perez is one of the best poets writing environmentally-aware poetry these days. His poem posted on my blog today, "Love in a...

The last poems posted on my blog, prior to today's post, are all serious and intense and powerful. Each one tells a bit of a woman's...

I have been very interested in aubades lately--both reading and writing them. I think what is drawing me to them is all of the...

For your inspiration this week, take a headline from the news--don't read the article (unless you really, really want to) and use the...

Today's blog poem, A.E. Stringer's "Sunday Morning, Cumberland Gap" conjures up both movement (through space and through time) and...

Louise Glück died on Friday, October 13, 2023, at the age of 80. She grew up in Hewlett, a Nassau County hamlet on Long Island. She...

As usual (although not always), this week's prompt takes its cue from today's blog poem, Middle-Aged Karaoke by Timothy Houghton. But you...

Two choices this week . . . or combine this two things for more of a challenge! Choice one: describe the end of a storm as Jean Toomer...

Philosophy is a school subject that is relevant in our everyday lives, whether or not we realize it. (They all are, of course, but some...